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ROOSEVFXT ON EGYPT.
Two noted Americans, tenajmrarily
sojourning in Europe, have taken ad
vantage of Mr. Roosevelt's "England
in Egypt" speech in London the other
day to try to even up some old scores.
Mr. Bryan remarked airily before a
British Y. M. C. A. meeting that
traveling in foreign couutries he did
not discuss the politics of those coun
tries because, as an outsider, he did
not regard himself as being sufficiently
informed. He added that as a guest
of a foreign people he would "account
it poor repayment for their hospitality
to descant on controversial subjects
which his entertainers understood bet
ter than himself."
Mr. Bryan's remarks are particu
larly interesting as coming from a man
who has said more and known lass
about a large number of vital subjects
in his own country than any other
American in public life we can remem
ber. Mr. Roosevelt spent the better
part of a year under conditions which
gave him opportunities for close stud'
of the character and results of British
rule in eastern aud northern Africa. If
we were of a gambling turn of mind
we would be quite willing to bet that
T. R. has ten times as much practical
knowledge of the political situation in
Egypt today as Mr. Bryan to take
only one instance had on the subject
of government ownership of railroads
when he made a certain famous speech
in Madison Square Garden some years
ago.
Mr. Hearst is much put out at the
stand Mr. Roosevelt has taken in re
gard to the Egyptian situation. He
asks: "Since when has it been neces
sary to urge Euglaud to govern with
a rod of iron and sword of blood? In
dia, Ireland, Egypt and South Africa
are broken with the former aud wet
with the latter."
We take it that it is very generally
acknowledged by England's best
friends that the English policy in Ire
land has been a blot on a colonial le-
cord that in modern times has been
generally creditable. On accouut of
the iuterest of man' of her noblemen
iu Irish lauds, England's policy iu
Ireland has beeu based, to a consider
able extent, upon seltishuess. Her
policies iu India and in Egypt, on the
other hand, have been largely altru
istic. The treiueudous system of irri
gation that has beeu built up uuder
English rule in Egypt will last as a
monument to English efficiency in
colonial management long after Tom
my Atkins has left, or been driven out
of the country. If it had not beeu for
Euglaud Mahdism, with all the horror
that name implies, would haye spread
to the shores of the Mediterranean in
the closing years of the nineteenth
ceutury.
Some time in the future the Egypt
ian fellah may be able to govern him-s-elf.
He certainly was not able to
govern himself twenty-five years ago,
aud it is not at all plain that if given
a chauce he would prove able to gov
ern himself today.
Mr. Roosevelt is an unusual man.
No other American, perhaps, would
have made such a speech as he made
iu Loudon ou Tuesday. However, he
had been asked to speak and it is a
part of the Rooseveltian philosophy
that when he is expected to speak, he
is expected to say something. If he
said it in a way to make the shivers
run up the spines of those "Little Eng
lauders" who are today somewhat
more than usually influential in Brit
ish politics, we do not see why that
fact should pertube Mr. Hearst and
Mr. Bryan so deeply. Cincinnati
Times-Star.
LEGAL ECCENTRICITIES.
One of the peculiar laws often set
up for the protection of the criminal
is being tried out now in the legislative
bribery investigation in Illinois. Hav
ing failed to defeat his prosecution by
the contention that buying votes for
senator is not a crime in the Sucker
state, Lee O'Neill Browne is now
endeavoring to establish the principle
that the confessions of those whom he
bribed cannot be used against him.
Unfortunately, there seems to be
something in the contention, and that
there is really a foundation in the law
which insists that the state must not
be impolite to a person accused of
crime, and it seems to be the theory of
the criminal law that the more revolt
ing the crime charged, the more signal
and decided must be the courtesies
shown by the state to the accused.
Lincoln people will recall a cause
celebre in this city wherein a negro
once confessed that he had been em
ployed by a woman to kill her hus
band and how at the end of a long
and expensive trial both the negro and
the woman were acquitted of the con
fessed crime, the woman because the
confession of the uegro could not be
used against her, and the negro lie
cause the jury refused to convict him
while (necessarily under the law as
laid down) letting the woman go free.
And so Lee O'Neill Browne of Illi
nois, whom half a dozen members of
the legislature have implicated in their
own disgrace, is able, for a time at
least, to snap his fingers at the majesty
of the law and defy the outraged state
to touch him. It is a most impressive
example of the distinguished consid
eration which our law makers and in
terpreters have accorded to the crimi
nal as his due.
One accused of crime may not be
convicted upon the evidence of those
who are particeps crimiuiswith him,
and even his own confession is clothed
by the law in an atmosphere of the
gravest suspicion. With the law itself
destroying the value of the testimony
of either the accused or those who have
participated with him in the crime
charged, aud with the inevitable im
pulse of crime to skulk in paths uot
open to the public view, the state has
beeu most generous toward the crimi
nal by robbing itself of available wit
nesses against him.
However, fortunately, the decisions
of the courts are uot at all unanimous
in holding that such confessions as
those of the bribed legislators of Illi
nois are not admissible in evidence aud
eutitled to weight as such. It depends
somewhat upon the condition of the
presiding judge's digestion, and it is
open to the public to hope that the
digestive organs of the judge before
whom this case is now (tending iu
Chicago will be perforuiiug their
wonted functions from this time for
ward until the case shall have been
disposed of to the credit of the dis
graced state of Illinois that gave to the
nation a Lincolu and a Grant Lin
coln Star.
WASTING HIS OPPORTUNITIES.
A man who had made a fortune iu a
western city retired from business some
years ago and moved to London to re
side. He came to the United States
recently on a visit aud some one asked
him why he resided in London. His
answer as reported by a New York
paper was as follows:
"Well, there is no place in America
for a mau out of a job. Over there
you will find more people in the same
position and you can associate with
them. Here, after I go in aud shake
bauds with my friends, they wonder
how soon I am going to leave so that
they can get back to work."
This is rather a busy country of ours
and the individual who has nothing to
do is likely to get lonesome at times.
Still there is a good deal that might be
done by a man who has plenty of leis
ure on his hands. There are hundreds
aud thousands of people who would be
glad to have this self-exiled western
er's opportunities. They are so busy
making a living that they haven't time
for much else. Perhaps that is the
trouble with some of the ex westerners
friends who have impressed him as
wondering how soon he is "going to
leave."
A man who has both time and mo
ney at his disposal need not necessari
ly be out of a job. He might go into
politics and do something for the cause
of good government; he might lend a
hand in charity work; he might assist
in some ot tue many movements tor
improvements and upbuildiug; he
might help fight the great white
plague; he might put his shoulder to
the wheel of any one of half a hundred
humanitarian enterprises that are lag
ging or halting. There are multiplied
thousands of things that need to be
done every day for the progress of the
world aud the betterment of mankind.
"The harvest is great and the laborers
are few."
There is no excuse for a man who
has health and strength and time and
money complaining of lack of vocation
or avocation. There are other ways
of being busy than by keeping one's
nose to the grindstone of commercial
ism. If this former westerner is sin
cere in the reason he gives for his self
expatriation he is a most woefully de
luded man. Courier Journal.
BRYAN ON SUMPTUARY LEG
ISLATION. I have heard people say they were
opposed to sumptuary legislation.
Have you ever heard that suggested?
When a man talks to me about sump
tuary legislation now I want him to
define what he means by it. They
have been usiug these general terms
long enough. Mr. Bryan at Wash
ington Hall, May 17, 1910.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 11, 1889.
Deak Sik and Fkienh: Your
favbr just received. I expect to attend
the convention at Omaha and am glad
that you are going. I will try aud
leave here at once, so that we can get
together and talk over platform before
the convention. I have no doubt we
will agree on tariff opinions, but I have
been in much trouble over the temper
ance plank. I, like you and the great
bulk of the parly, am opposed to pro
hibition, but thought that as the re
publicans took no stand on prohibi
tion we had better content ourselves
with a declaration against sumptuary
legislation, such as we usually have.
We have a number of men who will
vote for the amendment, among them
Sawyer, Snell, Miller, Whitmore, etc.,
etc. They do not ask us to declare in
favor of prohibition, but simply do as
the republicans havedoue leave it to
each individual to vote as he likes.
By declaring against prohibition we
will lose a good many votes, while we
will not gain republican votes. We
tried last fall in our country; declared
in so man' words against prohibition,
aud the saloons went solid agaiust us.
I wish I could see you before the
convention. Can't you come up here
Tuesday morning and go from here to
Omaha, aud we can discuss all of the
planks? Will draw up the plank you
suggest. Yours truly,
(Signed) W. J. Bkyan.
WHY VAUNT ONE'S CALLING?
A youth, with a flowing black tie,
negligee shirt and self-couiident man
ner, walking along Broadway yester
day, ?aw a crowd gather in the neigh
borhood of the Cadillac. He rushed
into the midst thereof, osteutatiously
pulled cut a notebook and announced
loudly that he was a rejiorter and
wished to get the news. Then he wait
ed for the homage that never came.
"Why do men vaunt themselves on
their business or profession?" asked a
traveler. "Why do they think that
they amount to more than anyone else
merely liecause they are lawyers, or
doctors, or leporters, or cowboys?"
"I give it up," said someone.
"Out in Los Angeles recently, I saw
a man riding down the main street of
that city looking like a circus," con
tinued the traveler. "He was a cow
boy, and wished all to know it.
He wore a bright red shirt, with neith
er coat nor waistcoat. He liau on
wonderful chaps, a broad brimmed
hat, a gun at his right hip. Also I
noticed that his hair had beeu oiled
and curled and brushed forward on
his temples. Why did he think that
auyone cared what his business in life
was.' Is a cowboy anything wonder
ful? I had not heard that he was.
"Riding on a train through Kansas,
I noticed a youth board the train at
Hutchison. He wore the rough
clothes which are supposed to go with
the West. Talking with the youth,
he told me he was a cowboy. He was
a preacher' son from Akron, O., and
had been working on a farm near
Wichita for six months 'tending cattle
and sheep. He had a paper called
the Kansas Cowboy in his possession.
and folded it so the word cowboy
could be seen, anil then he stuck it in
his handkerchief pocket of his coat so
that all who looked at him would get
the word. What did people care,
because this poor, feeble minded per
son had been workiug on a Kausas
farm? I give that up, too.
"Somewhere iu Illinois a chuch
man boar Jed the train. He was clad
in black, with knee breeches on, wore
a purple ribbon around his neck, on
one end of which was an eyeglass.
He had on a Roman collar aud wote
an enormous ring on the third finger
of his right hand. What do you sup
pose we cared Iwcausc he was bishop?
And yet he undoubtedly wished us to
know or he would not have worn the
tidiculous knickerbockers, the shovel
hat, the purple ribbon, the absurbring
and all the other paraphernalia of the
churchmau.
"There was a thin faced woman on
the train, also, with flushed face and
rather anxious look. She attracted
some attention to herself and then
ostentatiously produced a yellow cov
ered book, one of the old French edi
tions of some play, and carefully began
to read it, looking up at times and
making her lips move. She wished
everyone present to believe she was an
actress. It's a funny world when
everyone thinks it is smart to tip off
his profession to everyone else, isn't it,
now?"
"Sure, it is" said someone. "That
is a very handsome pin you are wear
ing there. What's the design?"
"It is a horse's head inside of a stir
rup, the whole with a whip running
around it," replied the traveler.
"Why do you wear that?"
"To show that I'm a horseman.
See?"
"Yes, I see."
THE SAME OLD BRYAN.
Mr. Bryan may have changed his
spots in so far as to be willing not to
force himself upon his party again as
a candidate for the presidency, though
even this we are somewhat inclined to
doubt. But he has not as yet changed
his character. That it is the same old
Bryan is made evident by his attack
in the Commoner on Governor Har
mon of Ohio. And how any man
guilty of this sort of thing could ever
receive the support of democracy is a
mystery.
Governor Harmon is one of the best
type of democrats. He is honest, high
minded and has shown himself capa
ble in office. He is a caudidate for
re-election to the governorship; and it
is generally admitted that, should he
succeed, he will be the democratic no
minee for president. At this moment,
for this reasou aud for no other, comes
Mr. Bryan's paper, denouncing Gover
nor Harmou for the purely imagiuery
offense of not insisting upon a popular
choice of United States senators, and
declaring that he is too closely allied
with the corporations for his own good
or that of his party.
Now we have uo love for Governor
Harmon aud no wish to see hitu suc
ceed. But he is a deceut man and de
serves deceut treatment. The reason
and purpose of Mr. Bryan's assault
are obvious. It will, he thinks, pos
sibly prevent the re-election of Gov
ernor Harmon in Ohio. That will
prevent his renominatiou. Aud Mr.
Bryan is determined that no one but
himself or some one personally chosen
by him shall have the nomination
while he lives.
It will in the future be couuled one
of the strange freaks of American his
tory that this man should have re
ceived aud held the support of so many
excellent people among the voters for
so loug a time. For Mr. Bryan has
not chauged. He is what he has al
ways been. He has always charged
every man who happened to oppose
his own ambition with personal cor
ruption. He has always made the
vote for Bryan his test of national pat
riotism aud civic righteousness. Nor
folk News.
A CREATIVE SENATOR.
Governor Broward has been chosei.
by the primaries as senator from
Florida, a very unusual event, consid
ering that the present incumbent has
made a good record. The reason is
not far to seek. Governor Broward is
a creative man, whereas most of the
southern statesmen are academic.
A few years ago Governor Broward
proposed that the state drain the
Okechobee lands, which are the finest
quality for small fruits and vegetables.
This seemed like communism or social
ism to many, and he succeeded only
after great difficulties. Now he has
turned worthless swamp lands into soil
worth 3500 an acre and the state will
soon get rich out of its energetic
enterprise.
This is the type of man needed in
the south. The average statesman of
that section is so haunted by the ghost
of the confederacy anil the ghost of
negro domination that he has no
chance to make two blades of grass or
corn or cotton grow where there was
only one. If every southern state had
a few such men as Broward there
would be a revival of industry in that
section which would wipe out all fear
of ghosts and would relegate sentiment
to its own sphere. Philadelphia In
quirer. There is a disgusted man in the
business office of the Journal. He re
fused to take money from a palmist
and clairvoyant who wanted to adver
tise a few days ago, on the ground that
such a business is essentially fraudulent
and ought not to be admitted to col
umns of a respectable newspaper.
After this turn down the clairvoyant
went over to the city hall, where at a
cost of seven dollars and a half he ob
tained a liceuse to rob the people for a
whole week. The query naturally
arises why a business that is too dis
honest to get into the ordinary busi
ness columns of a newspaper can secure
a license from the city merely by ask
ing for it and handing over a specifi
ed amount of coin. The wrath of the
city authorities when they discovered
that this man had been fleecing his
customers amounted to a fine piece of
comedy. They licensed him to do a
thing and then chased him out of town
because he did it successfully. State.
Journal.
Governor Shallenberger in speaking
before the educators in the state in
stitute last week, referred with evident
pride that Nebraska, once a frontier
late, now has no state debt, owns
24,000,000 of bonds of other states and
has an overflowing treasury. The
Sheldon taxation act did the business.
Governor Shallenberger also express
ed his willingucss to speud for educa
tion all that any legislature cares to
appropriate foiv that purpose. Bel
grade Herald.
THOMAS DIX9N
Dean of the American Platform
This eloquent southerner, iu whom
is preserved all of the traditions of
the ideal public speaker, is to lecture
at our Chautauqua. lie has a mess
age of vital interest and he delivers
It fearlessly and well. ?.&
Miss Annette Tucker
Celebrated (l!it with Weiss-Esery
Musicians.
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CHAUTAUQUA
FRENCH TRADESMEN.
Bows and Smiles and Flattery All
Used In Business.
"Bon jour, uinilume." This In a cor
dial tone .Mini accompanied by a ready
smile Is the welcotm of your Freucu
tradesman or tradeswoman. With low
ly bows and uidesprc.-idin smiles he
shows himself delimited to serve you.
If you lKik over everything in theshop
aud buy only th winy of a chicken,
yet he will Just as smilingly bow you
out and hope to see you again.
Once I entered my milkman's speck
less shop and was met by .Monsieur
Jean himself. "Oh. Monsieur Jean," 1
smiled. "I am so sorry! Your milk Is
so delicious, but I lind that I cannot
use all of 4 cents worth a day." Mon
sieur Jean was all sympathy, under
standing nt once, and answered, "Hut,
madame, let me send you half that
quantity, 2 cents worth 1 cent's worth
what you will." And with a shrug
and a smile, as if to say, "What
Is 2 cents worth of milk compared
with the honor of your patronageV"
he put my fears to rest
This subtle flattery of the tradesman
Is really good business. One Is only
human, and It is so pleasant to be a
person of consequence! I resolved on
the spot to buy all my butter and
cheese from Monsieur Jean, as well as
the milk. New Idea Woman's Maga
zine. A Dog and a Song.
During oue of the last birthday cele
brations of the poet Whitticr he was
visited by a celebrated oratorio singer.
The lady was asked to slug, and. seat
ing herself at the piano, she began the
beautiful ballad "Uobin Adair." She
had hardly begun before Mr. Whit
tier's pet dog came into the room and,
seating himself by her side, watched
her as If fascinated, listening with a
delight unusual In an animal. When
she finished ho came and put his paw
very gravely Into her hand and licked
her cheek. "Robin takes that as a trib
ute to himself." said Mr. AVhlttler.
"lie also Is Robin Adair." The dog.
hearing his own name, evidently con
sidered that he was the hero of the
6ong. From that moment during the
lady's visit he was her devoted attend
ant He kept by her side when she
was Indoors and accompanied her
when she went to walk. When she
went away he carried her satchel iu
his mouth to the gate and vatched her
departure with every evidence of dis
tress.
Courtship In China.
A curious custom prevails at Iluay
nlnghsien. In Kwangsi. On the fif
teenth day of the first month in each
year all the young ladies and gentle
men take a walk to the Vcnyen moun
tain. Each damsel carries a little bos,
which she deposits at the foot of the
hilL Any young gentleman desirous of
entering the bonds of matrimony may
select one of the boxes and take it
away with him. whereupon the fair
owner of the bos makes herself
known, and an acquaintanceship is
thus formed. IU assorted matches are
not likely to occur, as this custom Is
observed only among the well to do
classes of society.
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When Kissing Was Costly.
The case of the ieople against Mur
line. heard by the governor of New
Haven colony hi council on May day,
ltitiO. Indicates the attitude toward un
licensed kissiug iu those times. It ap
peared that Jacob Murline and Sarah
Tnttle had been caught kissing each
other. Jacob tried to throw the blame
on Sarah, saying be thought she bad
"with intent let fall her gloves." Sa
rah denied the inteut. Jacob then ad
mitted that be "tooke her by the band
aud they both sat dowu upou a chest,
but whether be kyssed her or she
kyssed him be knows uot. for he nev
er thought of It since until Mr. Ray
mond told him that he bad uot layde It
to heart as he ought." The stem gov
ernor, after duly lecturing the guilty
parties on the enormity of their of
fense, decreed that "the sentence there
fore concerning them Is that they shall
pay either of them a flue of 20 shil
lings to the colony."
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Down and Up.
"That remedy." -mid a seuator of a
proposed pu't-t t It-uisliitlou. "Is as 1m
practi. able as liitlc Ueorge Washing
ton's. George Washington, you know,
when his father spoke to him about
the cherry tree said:
"Yes. father: I did chop dowu the
tree, but 1 can easily make the evil
good.
"How so. my boy';" the father asked.
'Why.' said Ueorge. Mr I chopped It
down can't I chop it up?'" Los An
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